Re: Linux versus floppy
- Posted by jbrown105 at speedymail.org Jun 10, 2003
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On Tue, Jun 10, 2003 at 03:20:41AM +0000, Jerry Story wrote: <snip> > Now I have two desktop icons for floppy: the original and the one I > made. > > When I click on the original, it brings up Konqueror for floppy but > doesn't show what is on the floppy, and I know the floppy has stuff on > it, and it's not write-protected. > > When I click on the new icon, it doesn't do anything except it gives a > message complaining about no filesystem type specified. > > I think I may have destroyed /dev/fd0. It's still there but it is empty. > > > Jerry Story > try typing this from the command line as root: mount -t msdos -o rw /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy ls /mnt/floppy touch /mnt/floppy/testfile.123 If the above fails, then its either a bad floppy, bad floppy drive, bad floppy driver, or bad filesystem driver. jbrown -- /"\ ASCII ribbon | http://www.geocities.com/jbrown1050/ \ / campain against | Linux User:190064 X HTML in e-mail and | Linux Machine:84163 /*\ news, and unneeded MIME |